28岁的博士生奥玛(奥玛尔·梅特瓦利 Omar Metwally 饰)决定撰写一本关于作家裘洛斯·关德的传记小说,他的前程和事业均紧紧的与这本小说相连着。据相关记载,裘洛斯早已经自杀身亡,他的哥哥亚当(安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰)、妻子卡洛琳(劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰)和情妇雅登(夏洛特·甘斯布 Charlotte Gainsbourg 饰)是世界上仅存的同裘洛斯有关联的三人。 不知为何,这三人都回绝了奥玛希望得到小说授权的请求。在女友蒂德莉(亚历山德拉·玛丽亚·拉那 Alexandra Maria Lara 饰)的劝说下,不甘心的奥玛决定亲自前往他们位于乌拉圭的一处偏僻小镇的豪宅进行拜访。奥玛的到来打破了小镇上的宁静,一段尘封多年的往事就此渐渐浮出了水面。
Stephen Seary, a charismatic and successful stage designer, returns to his small hometown in Australia to say goodbye to his dying mother. What was to be a quick trip descends into chaos, drama, and at times downright funny moments as Stephen navigates family responsibilities, a difficult relationship with his father, old friends and past lovers, all while trying to return to Europe for a major opera contract.
Stella Ballister (Patricia Owens) receives the horrifying news that her husband met with an untimely demise while mountain climbing. Newly married, Stella asks for the retrieval of her husband's body - but the task proves impossible when the corpse accidentally falls into a deep crevasse, where no human eyes or hands can reach him. Mark (James Donald), having feelings for Stella, stays by her side, a close friend and nothing more. Forty years later, still trying to get over the news of the accident, Stella learns that the glacier has moved. Hiring a crew to help prospect her husband out of the ice, they find the body preserved and untouched. Stella views the body of her husband one last time.
Barbie Hallem is a bored rich girl, who drinks too much, parties too much and flirts outrageously with any man she meets. And there's no reason to think she stops at flirting, even though she has a boyfriend. But her boyfriend is a drip. He won't punch out a guy when he sees her kissing him. The dullard even tries to take her home when she gets drunk at a party. What she wants to do is go up to the mountains and stay at the cabin her uncle left to her. The boyfriend tries to tag along, but she manages to abandon him at the side of the road. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.